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      The missed encounter of turupukllay: Marxism, indigenous communities and Andean culture in Yawar Fiesta

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          This article takes as its point of departure a discussion of José María Arguedas’s engagement with Marxism, the ideas of José Carlos Mariátegui and the journal Amauta. It argues that Arguedas’s distance from official party politics should not be confused with an abandonment of politics as such. It also underscores Arguedas’s reflections on the relationship between lived experience, socialist theory and literary writing. This sets the stage for an exploration of a core problem in Arguedas’s oeuvre: the missed encounter between Marxist organisations and indigenous communities, which is to say, the failure to form an alliance between these groups based on mutual understanding and reciprocal enrichment. The article turns to Arguedas’s first major novel, Yawar Fiesta (1941), and traces its portrayal of such a missed encounter as it occurs around the celebration of turupukllay, an Andean translation of a Spanish bullfight that commemorates Peru’s independence from colonial rule. The wager of the article is that Yawar Fiesta’s capacity to illuminate key contributing factors of the missed encounter enables Arguedas to advance an immanent critique, a critique of a certain tendency of Marxism from within Marxism itself, and that, as a result, the novel supplements socialist theory by simultaneously exposing its limits and enhancing its claims.

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                Journal
                RA
                Radical Americas
                UCL Press
                2399-4606
                29 June 2020
                : 5
                : 1
                : 2
                Affiliations
                Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, 4002 Modern Languages Building, 812 East Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; garnall@ 123456umich.edu
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                RA-5-2
                10.14324/111.444.ra.2020.v5.1.002
                2e322c6e-c7e6-44ad-9ddf-c0a82f47d91f
                © 2020, Gavin Arnall.

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2020.v5.1.002.

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                : 03 March 2020
                : 04 June 2020
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                Arnall, G. ‘The missed encounter of turupukllay: Marxism, indigenous communities and Andean culture in Yawar Fiesta’. Radical Americas 5, 1 (2020): 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ra.2020.v5.1.002.

                Sociology,Political science,Anglo-American studies,Americas,Cultural studies,History
                Yawar Fiesta , turupukllay ,missed encounter,Marxism,lived experience,indigenous communities,Andean culture, Amauta ,José Carlos Mariátegui,José María Arguedas

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